# Wild cards in phrases

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wild-cards-in-phrases/18157>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 17, 2014, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wild-cards-in-phrases/18157 "2014-06-17T13:44:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![saud\_rehman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@saud\_rehman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saud_rehman)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wild-cards-in-phrases/18157/1 "2014-06-17T13:44:22Z")

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Hi,

I want to wild cards in phrase search. Is their any way of doing this in elastic search ?

e.g  
"elas\* cards"

Regards  
Saud.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wild-cards-in-phrases/18157/2 "2017-07-06T01:21:50Z")

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